psimedia fails to build for Natty - fatal error: linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory

[Andreas Olsson]

Binary package hint: psimedia

Looking into bug #713511 I tried rebuilding psimedia 1.0.3-4 in a fresh natty pbuilder chroot. Both for amd64 and i386 the build failed here.

g++ -c -pipe -g -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -I../psimedia -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/liboil-0.3 -I. -o deviceenum_unix.o deviceenum/deviceenum_unix.cpp
deviceenum/deviceenum_unix.cpp:38:29: fatal error: linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory

Based on information in bug #721399 the linux/videodev.h refers to a header no longer part of the 2.6.38 kernel.

[Andreas Olsson (andol)]

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http://lists.affinix.com/pipermail/delta-affinix.com/2011-March/001850.html